Ossamic: Difference between revisions

|pronunciation=o.sə.ˈʃaːm.mə

|ethnicity=[[Ossamics]]

|speakers=755 thousand

|date=2022

|created=June 9th, 2026

|familycolor=Indo-European

|iso3=sish

|notice=IPA

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! colspan=2 | nasal

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! rowspan=3 | stop

! unvoiced

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! aspirated

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! voiced

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! rowspan=2 | fricative

! unvoiced

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! voiced

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! rowspan=3 | affricate

! unvoiced

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! aspirated

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! voiced

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! colspan=2 | approximant

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! colspan=2 | trill

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! colspan=2 | tap

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! High

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! Mid-high

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! Mid-low

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! Low

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Ossamic makes a clear distinction between roots and stems, with roots being the shortest common piece of any term between all its forms, whereas stems are the shortest forms of a word used directly in inflection, to make this distinction clearer, an example is {{lang|sish|խըռնենըմ}}, with the root {{lang|sish|խըռն֊}}, and the stem {{lang|sish|խըռնե֊}}, the root is general and is used as the basis of all forms, whereas the stem is specific to the verbal forms and derivatives therefrom.

===Nouns===

Nouns decline for possessor, with the possessor being marked through a clitic pronoun that declines according to an irregular ə-type pattern.

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! singular

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! nominative

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! accusative

| {{sish-tr|֊ընեւմ}}

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! rowspan=2 |

! colspan=2 | {{l|sish|վիլֆը}}

! colspan=2 | {{l|sish|յիգը}}

! colspan=2 | {{l|sish|խիւնզը}}

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! singular

! plural

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզը}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընե}}

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! accusative

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզըմ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընեմ}}

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! allative

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզըհռ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընեհռ}}

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! genitive

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզուտ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընիւտ}}

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! ablative

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզիճ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընայճ}}

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! dative

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզըհ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընեհ}}

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! instrumental

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզու}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընիւ}}

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! comitative

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզոմ}}

| {{sish-tr|խիւնզընեւմ}}

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===Adjectives===

===Verbs===

Verbs have evolved to a predominantly agglutinative state, and have simplified greatly from what Old Thadic is thought to have had.

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! perfective

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! imperfective

The imperfective and causative can be paired together, though rarely, to form the imperfective causative, marked by {{l|sish|֊(ը)ժըհնըմ}}

====Tense====

Ossamic has four main tenses, being present, near past, general/far past, and future, though occasionally an imperfect does show up. Classical Ossamic also carries a perfect marker, though this has largely been dropped in favor of auxiliary verbs.